Pony should finish a large (hopefully!). He’s currently around 11hh if I were to guess.
Dam is a small Welsh, sire is a BWP.
Not sure how much this guy should be eating? I haven’t had a pony in a long time, and never a growing one.
I’m worried about over feeding.
Same principles apply as to horses. 2% of their body weight in forage as a starting point - all they want to eat if they need the calories, some restriction if they’re a porker. Keep the body condition a healthy lean. But never sacrifice nutrition for calories.
Ration balancers work well for pony foals as well as horse foals. Triple Crown Senior is a great growth feed as well, nice low NSC. But a ration balancer as a base, with some alfalfa pellets for calories as needed (you can keep a handful in the diet all the time, then increase/decrease as calories are needed), is a great way to keep up with the changing body condition of fast-growing youngsters, without changing back and forth between a growth feed and balancer.
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